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Flatpak 1.16.4 Brings Important Security Fixes For Sandbox Escape & Deleting Host Files

7. Duben 2026 - 22:47
That Flatbox app sandboxing and distribution system is out today with important security updates...

Jay: A New Open-Source Shader Compiler Being Developed For Intel GPUs

7. Duben 2026 - 22:32
Jay is a new open-source shader compiler being developed for Intel's open-source OpenGL and Vulkan Linux drivers. Ultimately this Jay shader compiler should help in delivering better Linux graphics performance with modern Intel hardware...

AMD InterWave ISA Sound Card Driver Seeing New Linux Patches In 2026

7. Duben 2026 - 21:25
For those that like to make remarks about AMD "fine wine" especially when it comes to open-source Linux drivers and/or nostalgic about feature work on really old hardware, to much amusement there are new patches today for the AMD InterWave ISA sound card from the 1990s...

Ubuntu 26.04 Provides More Performance For AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo"

7. Duben 2026 - 16:15
Last week I provided benchmarks to quantify how the AMD Strix Halo graphics performance has evolved since launch one year ago, in today's article is a look at how the Zen 5 CPU performance with the flagship Ryzen AI Max+ 395 has evolved under Linux in the year since these exciting APUs began making their way to high-end laptops and desktops. Complementing the nice Radeon 8060S performance gains are also some nice CPU performance benefits quantified when using Ubuntu 26.04.

Intel QAT Driver With Linux 7.1 Adding Zstd Offload Support

7. Duben 2026 - 15:45
The Intel QuickAssist "QAT" driver for the mainline Linux 7.1 kernel is adding support for Zstd offloading across QuickAssist Gen 4 / Gen 5 / Gen 6 accelerators for Zstandard compression as well as Zstandard decompression (limited there to the latest Gen 6 hardware)...

Linux's Second-In-Command Turns To New Fuzzing Tools For Uncovering Kernel Bugs

7. Duben 2026 - 14:50
Greg Kroah-Hartman, the main Linux stable kernel maintainer and typically viewed as the second-in-command to the Linux kernel development, has turned to new "gregkh_clanker_t1000" fuzzing tooling to help uncover new kernel bugs...

Framework Reports More Memory Cost Increases, Some Good News For Framework 16

7. Duben 2026 - 13:57
Framework Computer on Monday issued their latest update concerning the ongoing price increases for memory and solid state drives affecting the industry. There has been some more price increases, signs of some temporary reprieve, and then a bit of good news on pricing for select Framework hardware...

AMD ISP4 Driver On Track To Be Merged For Linux 7.2

7. Duben 2026 - 11:30
It looks like with the Linux 7.2 kernel later in the year the AMD ISP4 driver will finally be merged to mainline. This driver is needed for the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop and other future AMD Ryzen laptops...

RISC-V XIP Linux Feature Being Removed After It Keeps Breaking For Months At A Time

7. Duben 2026 - 11:19
Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place "XIP" support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM. The intent is on allowing the kernel to run from non-volatile storage like NOR flash that is directly addressable by the CPU and to reduce RAM usage. But after RISC-V XIP support is broken for months at a time, the feature is now set to be retired from the mainline kernel...

Mesa Granted Permanent Updates Exception For Fedora Linux

7. Duben 2026 - 11:09
It doesn't change too much in practice with how Mesa updates typically have been handled under Fedora Linux, but now it's officially documented: Mesa graphics drivers have a permanent updates exception so new Mesa versions can be shipped as updates in Fedora stable releases...

Lemonade 10.1 Released For Latest Improvements For Local LLMs On AMD GPUs & NPUs

7. Duben 2026 - 10:59
Following last month's Lemonade SDK 10.0 release that finally makes AMD Ryzen AI NPUs under Linux useful for running large language models (LLMs) where as before the Linux build could only target GPUs, released on Monday was Lemonade 10.1 with more enhancements to this local LLM solution...

Mesa Developers Decide On Two Gen AI Policies For Development Moving Forward

6. Duben 2026 - 23:24
Building on prior Mesa contributor guidelines and discussions among upstream Mesa developers, there are two generative AI "GenAI" policies that have now been decided upon for Mesa development moving forward...

Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains

6. Duben 2026 - 23:01
Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils...

FreeBSD Aims To Better Track Laptop Hardware That Works Or Doesn't For Their OS

6. Duben 2026 - 19:32
Over the past year the FreeBSD project has been making much progress on making it more viable to run this BSD operating system on laptop hardware. They have worked on better graphics driver support, improved power management / suspend, making sure audio is working, and even rolling out a KDE desktop option from the FreeBSD OS installer to ease the deployment on desktops. While that engineering work continues, they are also working now to make it easier to summarize laptop hardware working or not on FreeBSD...

A Small But Useful Debugging Addition For AMD Zen Systems With Linux 7.1

6. Duben 2026 - 18:03
A small but convenient feature is coming with the Linux 7.1 that will be useful in debugging AMD Zen system problems and information reporting/transparency purposes...

NetBSD 11.0 Nears Release With RC3 Released For Testing

6. Duben 2026 - 15:53
For the better part of the past year NetBSD developers have been preparing for the NetBSD 11.0 release and in February NetBSD 11.0-RC1 released followed by 11.0-RC2 and now a third release candidate was announced today...

Wine Staging 11.6 Ships Big Patch Series For Working On DirectComposition

6. Duben 2026 - 15:15
Following Friday's release of Wine 11.6 with reviving the Android driver and improving game mod support as part of DLL loader updates, Wine-Staging 11.6 is out today with extra patches atop...

Many MediaTek MT76 WiFi Driver Improvements Coming For Linux 7.1

6. Duben 2026 - 11:40
Separate from the recently discussed work on MediaTek MT7927 "Filogic 380" support being worked on for the MT76 Linux driver (still undergoing review), a number of other MediaTek MT76 wireless driver improvements are queued up ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening as soon as next week...

Google Proposes JSIR As A High-Level IR For JavaScript

6. Duben 2026 - 11:11
Google engineers have been developing JSIR as a high-level intermediate representation (JSIR) for JavaScript that they are already using in production at the company code code analysis and transforming other code/bytecode to JavaScript as well as for deobfuscating JavaScript code...

Tiny Corp Begins Accepting Pre-Orders For Their $10M Exabox

6. Duben 2026 - 11:03
Open-source friendly company Tiny Corp that is behind the Tinygrad MIT-licensed neural network framework and developing a "sovereign" AMD GPU driver stack with their Tinybox hardware offerings has their sights on shipping the Exabox next year. The Tiny Corp's Exabox is expected to retail for around $10M USD but offer immense AI compute power...